what does it take to get a brilliant move!

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Try the fried liver, it gives you 1 brilliant move

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guyz i got my first brilliant move after 1 month of playing but i had to resign because i had to eat

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It's actually really easy to make brilliant moves. It's just that you SKIP through brilliant moves without knowing that there's one available. Take an example at my game. I hesitated for a bit before considering to sacrifice my queen for a beautiful checkmate. I just took the easiest examples that I got from my games to help you understand more about it. REMEMBER TO THINK AND CALCULATE THROUGH EVERYTHING before making your "brilliant" move in chess!

In this game, I played REALLY badly, but I managed to find 2 "free" brilliant moves for you guys to understand my statement. For the first brilliant knight sacrifice, I penetrated through the kingside's defence and secure a winning position. In the second rook sacrifice, I threatened mate to the opponent's side. But in the end, they resigned after I captured their queen. Turns out that THERE ARE SOME BRILLIANT MOVES THAT REQUIRE MEMORIZATION, for example of my previous knight sacrifice which will counterattack the black king really aggresively.

Or in this game which I blundered severely. After the opponent conceals my rook, I sit and think 5 minutes before making a brilliant move following by the sequence. After the pawn takes, any move they do will lead to a slight ZUGZWANG. Leading to me capturing their rook (even though I blundered so hard I cannot forget about it). This brilliant move is kind of hard to find, but what's important is that YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING AFTER A BRILLIANT MOVE. If you can, you will secure a better position.

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